My mate lives up at the new estate in Gleadless Common (Ashleigh Court) and last night a bunch of chavs stole his motorbike from outside his house.

It's a Hyosung Comet 125 in red. It looks like a much bigger bike, but it's only a 125 (about the size of a GS500) and I am sure the thieves got a shock when they reaslised how slow it was.

Anyway, if you have any information on this or know someone involved etc. then PM me.

If you know who did it and help him get his hands on them then there may be something in it for you too.

Cheers.

what plate is it on?

I think it was a 53 plate, but can't remember.

i will post it on the bike chat forums for you then

Originally posted by f_g
i will post it on the bike chat forums for you then Thanks.

To be honest he's not that fussed about getting it back it seems. The money from the bike's insurance will pay for his full bike license and a car test for him too, but I know he would love to get his hands on the chavs that took it.

If you are thinking of moving to one of these new homes in that estate I would certainly be reviewing your security.

ask him if he wants to buy a yamaha thundercat 33bhp restriceted with certificutes for £1500 :)

Originally posted by f_g
ask him if he wants to buy a yamaha thundercat 33bhp restriceted with certificutes for £1500 :) He was tempted, but they've found his stolen motorbike now.

The Police still have it as they reckon theirs come good evidence on it, but it's not in a driveable state at the moment anyway aparantly.

I think the scum that took it realised how slow it was, despite looking like a bigger bike (he only rides a 125 so it's very slow) and they ditched it.

Anyway, I was speaking to him about it the other night and it sounds like the thieving chavs that took it are a load of wimps. Even though there was 4 of them making off with the bike, they still legged it from him on his own. He was chasing them and ready to 'sort it out' as he put it, but they aparantly got scared and legged it from him.

That amuses me, the thought of 4 chavs legging it from one guy dressed in nothing but his boxer shorts during the night. At least we know they weren't real men that stole it.:D

Anyone having a bike nicked around heeley/manor and surrounding areas may like to know that here on arbourthorne we have a huge problem with kids on bikes tearing around the place. number plates are usually ripped off.....but it might be a good place to cruise around and see if you can find your bike. the east bank road/arbourthorne rd/eastern ave/northern ave is a common circuit for the little t##ts...and the playing fields off east bank road and eastern avenue are commonly used.
mid afternoon is a good time.....

happy hunting

sue

I was driving up to his place at the weekend and two lads shot past on an oldish looking bike (I'd say between 125 and 250 ish). They were wearing ski masks to hide their faces and seemed to be using the road quite happily.

They came from the direction of the tip and travelled towards Heeley way. They were doing some speed too for a 30mph route.

Unfortunately as I was making a right turn and concentrating on other traffic I was unable to get the registration so there was little point in reporting it at the time.

I suspect they'd knicked it as they didn't look old enough to drive the bike, plus they were wearing ski masks and no helmets.

I know it's quite a common thing in those areas for the scum to ride on stolen or illegal bikes, but surely you lot must get a bit fed up of it?

The only trouble we had with bikes recently in our area was some kids sharing a moped that one of them owned. He was tearing around the car park near Millhouses park and after a quick chat from several of us he stopped. Not saying it's worth takcling them, because normally they will have a go back, but surely this is a problem that needs stamping out?

The theft of these bikes puts costs up for everyone, not just the bike owner. The more bikes that are knicked in your area will increase YOUR premium too as your area becomes a higher risk. This also increases other insurance too for the same reason. The time the Police have to put in to it increases their resource drain and therefore more demand on council tax. The damage these idiots do also has to be paid for and there's also the injuries caused to either themselves (little sympathy for you bike stealing chavs) or worse still to the innocent people they collide with etc.

I was half tempted the other day to deliberately ram the two on the bike with my car, but luckily my sensible and law abiding side kicked in before I did that. Maybe next time they will come across someone that isn't so sensible though or that wants to reduce the number of criminals carrying out this dangerous 'hobby' they seem to have.

yes, we are fed up to the back teeth of it.
however, while ever kids see the law as a minor inconvenience and not a threat, no amount of police ops (as have been going on extensively round here lately) will make a slight bit of difference.

quad bikes are starting to make an appearance now too...... so if you know anyone who has one, remind em to lock it up properly!

Like you say they aren't afraid of the law as it's just an inconvinience to them.

We had a laughable card put through our door the other day from the home office saying they'd had enough of anti social behaviour and that you could now call this hotline for a fast response. I haven't called it yet, but I know when my mate used to call 2202020 for the joy riders near his house he was often on hold for up to 10 minutes by which time the offender had normally moved on, so I wonder if the home office line is any better?

It would be more of a deterrent if someone gave these people a good kicking and left them as the ones being hurt instead of them hurting others. This way they'd hopefuly think twice before going out and doing the same again. It would be much more of a deterrent than a quick telling off by some youth worker or similar.

I am not trying to encite a gang of vigilantes to storm off and beat the hell out of these people, but it does seem that they are in the same place time after time doing the same activities that cause missery, expense and suffering to everyone and they get away with it most of the time too. If people started playing them at there own game and turned up wearing ski masks, grabbed them and hurt them then I'm sure it wouldn't be too long until they realised they were out numbered and likely to get hurt if they kept stepping out of line like that.

(I am against this sort of thing, but it's got to the stage where the people breaking the law are just plain getting away with it and the innocent people are suffering. This will only get worse over time and although it's being attempted to be dealt with by the authorities, how much longer will it be until someone is hurt or killed by these people or how much longer can they be allowed to just take what they want and laugh in your face?)